We had an awesome awesome week!! I wish that I was faster at typing so that I could just fit everything into this email!
While mary was sick we got to teach vienna alone again and it was so good. We taught her the doctrine of christ and had her draw it out in her study journal and then she pulled out this marking tabs and started marking the scriptures that we were reading with her. At the end of the lesson she said the closing prayer and that was the first prayer ever that she had said with us! sister edwards and I were just so happy after the lesson driving home and then we got this text from vienna with a picture attached to it. It was a picture of one of the blank pages in the book of mormon and she had wrote, "first prayer with sister wood and sister edwards october 10th 8:50" we started crying haha I literally just can't put into words how much I love mary and vienna!!! I don't know how I am ever going to leave them!!
Probably the most uncomfortable I was this week was thursday night. it was after 7 and so it was dark outside and we were going to stop by this one member who is less active but it turned out she had moved so we just stayed in the area and were knocking ( the road we were on was in the middle of no where haha a lot of the roads are like that). Just everyone that we met that night was just not quite normal but the weirdest moment was when this old grandma came to the door at this one house and yelled that she didn't have her clothes on so we yelled back "sorry we'll come at a better time." and started walking back down the steps but then all of a sudden the door opened... haha we didn't see anything but that was just a very awkward conversation. also this week we almost got eaten by a dog. again, it was dark outside and like no one had answered their doors but then we got to this one house and their door was open so were like they have to be home. we knocked on the door and then we noticed this leash by our feet and then we heard a growl! this big black dog came out the door growing and was blocking the stairs to get off the porch sister edwards and I were just silent haha and squeezing each others hand. and then the dog came right up to us and started sniffing our legs AND.... that's all it did hahah it's so funny thinking about how scared we were now.
last night mary finally felt well enough to have al lesson again. She told us in the lesson that while she was sick she hadn't been praying but on sunday she decided to pray and ask god if she could be well enough to get out of bed and then monday morning came and she just popped right out of bed and started doing things! She said, "I don't know why I didn't think to pray sooner!". The lesson with mary and vienna was so good. we taught the restoration and watched the restoration video and mary was just all over that haha. Sister oickle came with us, she's a convert and has such a powerful testimony. mary said that she really wants her husband to come to church with them this week! We are praying that he will and that he will feel the spirit!
So the coolest thing that happened this week was meeting melissa! So the reason that we had first gone to mary's house was to find this couple melissa and jason. They had never been taught before but we just felt good about their names. but we soon found out that they no longer lived there when we met mary and vienna. On saturday night we were knocking around the hospital and came up to this really cute house with a bunch of halloween decorations. the window in the front was really big and so the mom saw us walking up to the door haha so thats always a little awkward but she was really sweet and enthusiastic when she came to the door. She told us her name was melissa and then a little voice in my head said "melissa and jason" and all of a sudden I just kinda blurted out "did you use to live on conqueral?" haha she was pretty surprised but she said yes! We taught her yesterday morning (we also taught this other mom named kate who is interested because of all the utah blogger moms haha so shout out to them) and the lesson was awesome!! I'm so excited to update you next week!!
also I got your package and the package from the lunds tell them thanks!
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